Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Chokwe Antar Lumumba (29 March 1983-) was Mayor of Jackson from 3 July 2017, succeeding Tony Yarber.

Biography
Chokwe Antar Lumumba was born in 1983, the son of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba. He was an attorney and activist before being elected Mayor of Jackson, a heavily Democratic city in Mississippi. Lumumba ran on a progressive platform backed by Our Revolution and the Working Families Party, promising to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet."